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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
it; and the latter sending to Mr. Sumner notes which indicated an adverse leaning. As appears by one bearing date Oct. 8, 1869, Mr. Fish peremptorily refused, at the urgent request of De Bille, the new Danish minister, to ask for another extension of time for the ratification, leaving De Bille to ask for it, and took pains to guard against any expression in favor of its ratification. A few months later, Jan. 28, 1870, he transmitted to Mr. Sumner, for use at his discretion, a letter from R. C. Kirk, minister resident at Buenos Ayres, dated Dec. 13, 1869, who, in an account of a recent visit, described St. Thomas as one of the most God-forsaken islands; . . . the great majority of its inhabitants filthy-looking negroes, subject to earthquakes, one of which occurred on the morning of his arrival, and the island itself as not desirable even as a gift. Miss Seward undertakes to give matters of record concerning the treaty which at the time she wrote were under the seal of secrecy. Bu